Post subject: Re: Is there any rare card more useless than Awakened Amalgam?

Posted: 2018-Jan-24 9:22 am

Joined: 2010-Mar-12 3:20 pmAge: Elder Dragon

There are worse cards then Awakened Amalgam. In fact, I've already seen one person playing it in commander. He has a colorless artifact creature deck, and a 4 drop with P/T equal to the number of lands he controls (all his lands are unique) was good enough to make the deck.

Post subject: Re: Is there any rare card more useless than Awakened Amalgam?

Posted: 2018-Jan-25 11:18 am

Joined: 2012-Feb-07 4:15 pmAge: Elder Dragon

Viperion wrote:

Inkeyes22 wrote:

an unopened Legends booster is around $250-300

Which is a massive massive rip-off. In terms of the rare slot you've got about a 6% chance of making your money back, plus the odds of pulling both a decently expensive rare and Mana Drain. Compare this to the new Ixalan set where if you buy packs online the rareslot gives you a 22% (assuming you don't pull literally any mythic), plus roughly 10% of getting Ravenous Chupacabra or Merfolk Mistbinder.

There was pretty much no card in block or standard that you wanted to give your opponent in limited or constructed. While it was nice to have a colour-shifted Donate, it was just a very strange inclusion.

There was pretty much no card in block or standard that you wanted to give your opponent in limited or constructed. While it was nice to have a colour-shifted Donate, it was just a very strange inclusion.

There was pretty much no card in block or standard that you wanted to give your opponent in limited or constructed. While it was nice to have a colour-shifted Donate, it was just a very strange inclusion.

I got to donate a (mostly) used Demonic Pact once. Was not expected at all. Granted I did pretty poorly the rest of the tournament, but still fun.

_________________"It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him."J. R. R. Tolkien

Shabbaman wrote:

The usual answer is "the social contract", but I guess that is not what you are looking for. Try house rules.

Post subject: Re: Is there any rare card more useless than Awakened Amalgam?

Posted: 2018-Feb-02 6:05 am

Joined: 2014-Apr-03 3:46 amAge: Drake

Swmystery wrote:

You've chosen a very odd example here. Even from the same set, there are significantly worse rares- Sphinx's Decree, Silverclad Ferocidons, Admiral's Order...like, Amalgam isn't great but it's hardly the poster child for "useless card in my rare slot".

Silverclad Ferocidons is really expensive but this is not in the top 10 worst dinos list and 8 power means Ferocidons can quite effectively trade with most creatures.

Admiral's Order is cancel with upside and basically any removal is better than a horrible vanilla creature.

Swmystery wrote:

As for what to do with Amalgam? Stick a Rancor or Sword of X&Y on it and start beating faces with your undercosted attacker. Or just draw it in the mid to late game in your five-colour deck and enjoy the 8/8 or 10/10 for cheap? That seems pretty good by itself.

You can do this with anything else. The opportunity cost is just massive compared to what you get with amalgam.

Post subject: Re: Is there any rare card more useless than Awakened Amalgam?

Posted: 2018-Feb-03 6:17 am

Joined: 2014-Apr-03 3:46 amAge: Drake

Viperion wrote:

illuknisaa wrote:

Admiral's Order is cancel with upside and basically any removal is better than a horrible vanilla creature.

And Cancel is a common. This is Cancel, and sometimes it's Cancel for U. It's far worse than a 4/4 for 4.

That doesn't make any sense.

Cancel costs one mana less and always trades with a card. Same cannot be said for Amalgam. Cancel that sometimes costs only one mana is actually pretty decent option for aggressive decks that play blue (Edric and Marchesa come to mind).

There are very few decks that actually want to play a (sometimes efficient) vanilla beater and those decks have far better options.